Recode Radio presents Recode Decode, hosted by Cara Swisher, powered by digital media.

Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, executive editor of Recode, and you're listening to Recode Decode,

a podcast about Silicon Valley's key players, big ideas, and how they're changing the world we live in.

Over the next couple of months, we'll have an extra episode each week hosted by the fabulous Peter Kafka,

Senior Editor and Producer of Recode's Code Media Conference.

Listen in as Peter interviews his favorite movers and shakers in the media world.

Welcome Peter, and this week you're talking to who?

I'm talking to Ricky Van Vien, one of the co-founders of college humor now does all sorts of TV and interesting internet stuff for Barry Diller over at IAC.

So why did you pick him?

Well it's with us your first and not the last.

My idea is a really interesting guy. He was when he started this business, he was in college,

and now he's kind of a wise old man of the internet, and really understands how the internet works,

and how media works broadly, and like lots of people we know who figured out the internet,

he's now spending a lot of time in TV, which is pretty interesting as well.

Kids videos where it's at, correct?

Videos where it's at, but TV's even really where it's at, according to a lot of people who are in the internet.

Alright then, let's hear what Ricky had to say to me.

There are not a lot of people who work for Barry Diller for a close to a decade.

I'm talking to one of them, he's Ricky Van Vien, he's a co-founder of college humor,

Vimeo, a bunch of other cool, interesting internet sites, he's now working at,

for Barry Diller at IAC working on television, by summarizing your story, Ricky.

And before we get started, I have to really give it up for your production team.

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